An astrophysicist would have no greater knowledge of climate change than any random well read person.

Come on man. This is just embarrassing.

As an undergraduate, the school of physics and astronomy provided me with a whole wealth of useful education that is directly relevant to climate change. One of my courses was meteorology, which is hardly something a 'random well read person' will stumble across.

__________________The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. -Eugene Wigner